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#Tip Tuesday: Identifiable Layers in HTML5

If you’re a frequent user of GIS, you’ve probably encountered a few situations where you need to see a large number of layers, but only need to access the data for one or two of them. A new feature for your HTML5 viewer allows you to see as many layers as you want, while only Identifying the ones you want. Read on to find out how!

For this example, I’ve got a section of road where I want to see all utilities, but only want to see detailed Sanitary Structure data.

Identifying this section (below) results in a long list of results which include the Sanitary Structures that we’re looking for, but it’s buried under Parcel, Storm, and Water data.

To limit the Identify tool’s results, we’ll select which layers should be identifiable by clicking the “Identifiable Layers” menu icon after choosing an Identify Tool.

After clicking “Identifiable Layers”, a side-panel will pop up where layers to identify can be chosen. For this example, we only want to identify Sanitary Structures, so I clicked the “Clear All” button, then checked the Sanitary Structure checkbox.Identifying the same area again leaves a much shorter Results list (below). The identifiable layers will save their setting until you close the map, or reset them by clicking “Select All” next to the “Clear All” button shown earlier. Try out this new feature, and don’t hesitate to contact us if you’d like us to walk you through its use!